Hemilienardia calcicincta explained

Hemilienardia calcicincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 2.25 mm.

(Original description) The small shell is incrassate and rugose. It contains six whorls. It is a little bright white semi-opaque. This opacity being caused by a dead-white transverse band crossing the few, coarse, prominent ribs and becoming broader in the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip, under a lens, is very beautiful, being minutely warted, and with four denticles, the columellar margin with four plaits.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland

References

• Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.

External links

• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295. 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia calcicincta (Melvill & Standen, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867744 on 2019-06-30
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99811#page/106/mode/1up Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1895) Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Journal of Conchology 8: 84–132, 3 pls